The School of Medical Science & Technology

 

Master's in Medical Science & Technology                                         3 years' duration

Students are selected for this programme through an All India Test conducted at all IITs and IISc Bangalore. The first batch of students were admitted  in July 2001.Ten students based upon merit, out of about 650 who appeared in the test, were selected for this programme. Three more batches of students have been admitted by a similar process in 2002-2004.

The students are very enthusiastic and keen about this programme. They have been working on a number of projects as part of their curriculum The interaction between the students and faculty has been very encouraging.

The students are encouraged to take up small projects in various R&D organizations and research institutes during winter and summer vacations:

1. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
2. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad.
3. Biocon India Ltd., Bangalore.
4. GE Corporate Research Center, Bangalore
5. L&T , Mysore
6. Bose Institute Calcutta
7. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
8. Biomedical Engineering Centre, IIT Delhi -AIIMS, New Delhi
9. National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
10. National Institute of Virology, Pune
11. Ranbaxy Labs,  New Delhi
12. National Brain Research Centre Delhi.
13. Brain Science Research Institute , RIKEN, Japan
14. CRIM Lab., Scuola Superiore  Sant’ Anna, Pisa, Italy
15. School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
16. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
17. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
18. Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore

19. Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

20. Gene-Quest, Delhi India – a Research subsidiary of Nicholas- Piramal Group

 

The final year students completed their research projects (June2003 to July 2004) in various institutes abroad:

1. Division of Bioengineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2. Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

3. University of Fukui, Japan

4. University of Pisa, Italy

5. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland

These research institutes and organizations have appreciated the caliber and enthusiasm of the students and the Master’s programme in general. All these organizations have decided to collaborate with this school in training the students and collaborative research programmes. The response from other organizations has also been very encouraging. 

 

          Tie-Ups and Collaborations

Government of West Bengal has signed a MOU with I.I.T Kharagpur to collaborate with this school by starting a National Institute of  Medical Science and Technology with a 100 bedded hospital and state-of -art medical and telemedicine facilities. 

We are in the process of establishing contacts with various centres of excellence in the field of Medical Science and Technology all over the world for collaborative research. This process has been initiated with the following organizations.

• Brain Science Institute, RIKEN Japan.

• National University of Singapore, Singapore.

• Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

• United Bristol Healthcare, NHS Trust, UK.

• Asia Heart Foundation (AHF).
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.

 

  Job Opportunities

 

• The students undergoing this programme should primarily aim to enter into area of research and development.
• They may find employment in well established organizations and laboratories engaged in Research and development work in areas of Medical Biotechnology including genetic engineering, Biomaterials including prosthesis, Bioinformatics, Biomedical instrumentation and Telemedicine  etc. in Government and private sector.
• A few of the companies engaged in research in these areas are: NBRC, NIMHANS, PG Institutes at Lucknow and Chandigarh, Bioinformatics centers of Government of India, and Industries like: Ranbaxy, Cipla, Biocon, Bharat Biotech, Dr. Reddy’s laboratories , Nicholas-Piramal, GE and Reliance Health care etc.
• Networking and modernization in the premier health institutes of the country is in progress. The graduates with exposure to the state-of-the-art knowledge in frontier technology areas can find gainful employment in these institutes also.
• They may become entrepreneurs and start their own enterprise. Further as entrepreneurs they can take the modern health care system to village level by state-of-the-art networking and IT methods for the larger benefit of the society.